Lead Finance

Lead Finance

Who we are: What do you want to be when you grow up is a question that conjures up possibility, hope and the joy of a future worth aspiring for. The core of Antarangs work is to enable children between the ages of 14-18 years of age from marginalized communities to have an aspiration and experience the excitement of planning a career. Antarang envisions a world where every young adult is productively, passionately and positively engaged in a career of their choice. Over the last 10 years, Antarang Foundation has enabled over 135,000 adolescents to enter career pathways of choice; thus helping them see a route out of the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Through intensive career awareness and readiness programs that are offered through the school system, Antarang enables adolescents to become aware of career opportunities, have an aspiration, have the ability to reach that aspiration and also provides access to opportunities. We have set ourselves an ambitious goal of seeing 2.5 million adolescents enter aspirational career pathways by 2030. For this, we realize that we need resources and the visibility to scale our impact and strengthen our credibility, and to enable this we are we are looking for a dynamic leader to head our Fund Raising and Communications.

The Lead, Finance is a critical senior management for Antarang. The roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

The ideal candidate is someone with:

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The Role

Finance core responsibilities:

• Manage and control the Annual budget of the organisation to ensure that all spends are compliant as per regulations and in-line with the prescribed policy and objectives.
• Ensure periodical monitoring and reporting of spends vs budget vs funding
• Accounting and maintaining books of accounts as per applicable accounting standards and applicable laws
• Ensure payments, reimbursements etc. are processed on a timely manner and ensure tax and other applicable compliances including FCRA
• Monitor cash-flow and fund-flow periodically
• Ensure all applicable statutory documents are maintained and returns files as per the statutory timelines
• Co-ordinate internal and external audit and file reports as per timelines
• Develop and monitor the accounting and finance policies to ensure audit readiness

Donor management & reporting:

• Plan and review the grant utilizations as per MOUs and ensure Utilisation reports/certificates are delivered to Donors / Partners as per agreed timelines.
• Support in finalisation of MoUs and budgets with donors.

Organisational support:

• Establish and update Internal Control framework and related policies and manual and ensure compliance of internal controls.
• Build a cordial working relationship with the senior leadership team and support in capability building as necessary.
• Work closely with Programme team and implementing partners to synergise finance function with that of operations.

The Person: Requirements for the role

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in the Finance domain
• Strategic and analytical mind set with attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent inter-personal and problem solving

Whats in it for you

• A young, vibrant work environment where Care forms the bedrock of our culture
• A chance to impact one of the biggest challenges facing our country
• An opportunity to shape Antarangs journey as part of the senior Leadership team
• Last but not the leastthe chance to form some strong bonds and connections!

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